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Innovation Endeavors

Founders Dror Berman Eric Schmidt Rick Scanlon Yuval Shachar

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Total investments 236
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 140
Rounds per year 16.86
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 29
Key employees 10
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
  • Analytics
Summary

Innovation Endeavors is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Dror Berman, Eric Schmidt, Rick Scanlon, Scott Brady, Yuval Shachar. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This Innovation Endeavors works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Innovation Endeavors is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Innovation Endeavors, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Morado Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Group 11, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Machine Learning, Analytics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Social Finance (SoFi), Formlabs.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Artificial Intelligence
Construction
Information Technology
$11M27 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Skylo

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
Wireless
$37M13 Feb 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Machina Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Engineering
Machine Learning
Mechanical Engineering
Performing Arts
Robotics
$32M05 Oct 2023 Chatsworth, California, United States

BioLoomics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Sensor
$8M19 Sep 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Plotlogic

Mining
$30M30 Jul 2023 Bowen, Queensland, Australia

Trunk Tools

FinTech
Productivity Tools
Software
$9M13 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Fero Labs

Analytics
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$15M21 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

RevSure

Developer Platform
SaaS
Software
$6M07 Jun 2023 New Castle, Delaware, United States

Siren Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Medical
Product Research
17 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Third Wave Automation Raises $40M in Series B Funding

– Third Wave Automation, Inc. is an Union City CA-based autonomous industrial solutions company.
– The company raised $40m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from prior investors Innovation Endeavors and Eclipse, along with Toyota Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth and commercialization efforts.

Fero Labs Raises $9M in Series A Funding

– Fero Labs is a New York-based provide rof Explainable Machine Learning software dedicated to the industrial sector.
– The company raised $9M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Innovation Endeavors with participation from Deutsche Invest VC.
– The new investment will be used to expands its sustainable solutions.

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Total investments 236
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 16.86
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 29
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Parspec

Artificial Intelligence
Construction
Information Technology
$11M27 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Skylo

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
Wireless
$37M13 Feb 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Machina Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Engineering
Machine Learning
Mechanical Engineering
Performing Arts
Robotics
$32M05 Oct 2023 Chatsworth, California, United States

BioLoomics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Sensor
$8M19 Sep 2023 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Plotlogic

Mining
$30M30 Jul 2023 Bowen, Queensland, Australia

Trunk Tools

FinTech
Productivity Tools
Software
$9M13 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Fero Labs

Analytics
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Software
$15M21 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

RevSure

Developer Platform
SaaS
Software
$6M07 Jun 2023 New Castle, Delaware, United States

Siren Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Medical
Product Research
17 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States
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